Ocimum Partners with JivanBiologics

Online, May 4, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Hyderabad, India, May 04, 2010 - Ocimum Biosolutions, a leading global integrated genomics company, today announced that it has partnered with Jivan Biologics to provide sequencing-based transcriptome profiling services. With this partnership, Ocimum will venture into RNA based services, especially transcriptome profiling, leveraging Jivan Biologics's industry-leading bioinformatics infrastructure, experience and technology. Ocimum and Jivan will jointly provide services in the area of exon mutation studies, splice studies, digital gene expression as well as other novel events.
Ms. Anu Acharya said, "We see this partnership as an opportunity to advance the use and value derived from our BioIT services throughout the research community. Combining Ocimum's expertise in the genomics arena with Jivan's strengths in RNA sequencing and expression will empower the research community in getting better insights into gene expression studies."